Anth�re wrote in very small part:
what does "purty" means ?
It's a humorous or derogatory spelling of "pretty",
which implies that the speaker is unsophisticated.
Mispronouncing "pretty" as "purty" /'p@rti/ (see [[SAMPA Chart]])
is similar to mispronouncing "nuclear" as "nucular" /'nuwkj@l@r/.
Such pronunciation has even become standard in the case of "iron",
which is pronounced "iurn" /'aj@rn/ even by educated speakers.
-- Toby